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Presidential candidate and professional evader Hillary Clinton has truly perfected the smile-and-turn, a political maneuver often used, but seldom captured on tape. Finally, here we have it: rare footage of Clinton in her natural habitat. In 2013, Politico reported that Clinton had been paid to speak to a group of Goldman Sachs employees, and, according…
In tonight’s concession speech, Hillary Clinton made grand declarations of her desire to get all the dirty money and secret Wall Street influence the hell out of politics. Which is to say, Hillary Clinton really wants Hillary Clinton out of politics. Clinton started off by attempting to brush recent concerns about her Goldman Sachs connection…
We should have seen it coming. Back then, Clinton was the standard-bearer for the New Democrats, a group that firmly believed the only way to win back the millions of white voters in the South who had defected to the Republican Party was to adopt the right-wing narrative that black communities ought to be disciplined…
Almost half of the top 20 employers whose workers contributed to the Sanders campaign last year were companies in Silicon Valley, the Wall Street Journal reports, including Google, Apple, and Microsoft. He received almost $105,000 from employees of the five largest tech firms in the last three months of 2015. The wider trend of smaller…
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the telling numbers tucked inside the news. Special thanks to Harry Enten, who is rad and helped identify those aforementioned numbers buried inside the New Hampshire news today. 5 Guess what y’all, we have a New Hampshire primary-based SigDig today. Five is the number of towns and…
Why I Put Some Ice on That Bern Alternatively titled: “Why I support Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders” As a 19 year-old progressive college student with a penchant for supporting LGBT rights, college affordability, and electoral finance reform, my vote this election cycle should be obvious. “There’s only one candidate who’s firmly supported a myriad…
For nearly a decade, one way The New York Times has shared the story of the technology industry and its impact on our lives has been through a blog called Bits. Today we are bidding farewell to the blog, though not to the journalism that has sustained it. When Bits was born, blogs were the…
Beyoncé’s Midas touch sent Red Lobster’s sales skyrocketing on Super Bowl Sunday this year after she name-dropped the American seafood chain in a surprise single she released the afternoon before. The song, titled “Formation,” is an homage to the singer’s southern roots, and includes quotable lines such as “I got hot sauce in my bag”…
As a coffee snob not typically interested in dropping $4 on a mediocre cappuccino, I tend to consider Starbucks a phone-charging station first and coffeeshop second. That said, I’m also a compulsively early person, which means I’ve spent my fair share of time walking around aimlessly to while away 20 minutes—or, when it’s cold or…
Written by Jasmine Walls, Illustrated by Amy Phillips Fated | Jasmine Walls: Comic Writer and Artist. Source: Fated | Jasmine Walls: Comic Writer and Artist